General Safety Procedure for Rig Moves
Prior to moving the rig the Drilling Contractor shall address the following points:
- Wearing personal protective equipment is a must when walking around on location. As a minimum, the supervisors shall wear a hard hat and safety shoes.
- The crane drivers shall wear hard hats and safety shoes when out of their cranes. Crane drivers shall also be competent (certified) to operate their cranes.
- Cranes shall be inspected and the inspection form shall be completed and filed for reference prior to usage. Special attention shall be paid to their slings. It shall be highlighted on the inspection form that crane drivers are competent (certified). Forms shall be signed by Contractor Supervisor and allocated crane drivers. It shall also be highlighted when last frill inspection by third party was completed including last load test date
- Drilling crews working off the ground and particular in the mast when assembling or disassembling shall use safety belts and secure themselves.
- Escort shall be available at cross point from black road.
- Drilling Supervisor shall be fully responsible on both locations.
- Senior personnel, Drillers, Assistant Driller, Mechanic, Electrician shall be responsible for organising and guiding crane operations.
- All loads shall have a tag line on when lifted.
- Use safety meetings to instruct how to sling loads, prior to rig moves. Note specifically that slings lifting a load with an angle over 45 deg, shall double or even triple the total load for that particular sling/chain.
- Drilling Supervisor shall leave old location as last person and shall satisfy himself that location is left behind without any debris and disposal pit burned out. This also includes the camp side.
- A morning safety meeting shall be held on both locations prior to the start of the operations and highlight all short-comings from the previous day.
- No smoking allowed on “old” location during the rig move. Only behind barriers near fly-camp.
- Single side wide loads (i.e.. mud tanks, etc.) shall have the “overhanging” part on the right side of the trailer to enable safe road passes by other vehicles.
- The Drilling Contractor shall be responsible for road safety. Wide loads shall be moved in convoy.
Rig Move Review
The rig move review shall be discussed not later than one week after move and the review shall contain:
- duration/distance
- number of loads
- weather condition
- incidents, near missed, potentials
- detailed breakdown of events (planned versus actual time)
- corrective actions to avoid delays
- learning points which could be incorporated in Rig Move Manual.
The review shall be discussed with Superintendent, Operations Engineer and Drilling Contractor.